"A warm welcome to the Wind, Brass & Percussion pages. Our students are trained to be first-class musicians and performers, able to work confidently at the highest levels in a variety of contexts. This may embrace orchestral, chamber, solo, theatre, studio, improvisation or other types of music. The music profession today is excitingly varied, and the demanding training WBP offers mirrors that closely."

Ian Mitchell
Head of Wind, Brass and Percussion

 Teaching

• Instrument-specific classes take place weekly for each of the disciplines within the department. These might focus on repertoire, technique, stylistic issues, different genres, performance, transposition, sight reading, recording studio techniques, doubling, period instruments, performance anxiety and more
• Timetabled weekly chamber music sessions with frequent opportunities to gain performance experience for chamber ensembles

Performance

• Solo; chamber music; chamber orchestra; symphony orchestra; wind orchestra; opera orchestra; pit band; wind ensemble; brass ensemble; percussion ensemble; mixed ensemble; Years 1 & 2 Sinfonia. There is also a weekly repertoire orchestra
• Wind, Brass and Percussion students are involved in a range of unique events each term, including anything from a 3-day improvisation festival to performances at prestigious London venues
• All students are involved in the annual CoLab module in which collaborative projects take place that step outside normal curricular activities, and are led and mostly conceived by students